Jason Edward Kocol

Jason Edward Kocol (1975- ) is an American instrumentalist, composer, recording engineer and performer, active since age 10. His musical interests and offerings range from modern day orchestral music to death metal, electronic music to tango, noise to synth pop, etc. He performs on the following instruments: guitar, voice, bandoneon, mandolin, bass guitar, piano, trombone, tuba, drums and percussion. He is currently a guitarist and vocalist in Oakland-based death metal band Impaled.

Discography

* 1993 - "The New President (self-titled demo tape)" - guitar, vocals
* 1994 - "Mister Lazy (self-titled demo tape)" - vocals, guitar, synthesizer
* 1997 - "suburban: "Henri, Come Out...I Want to Play With You" (LP)" - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, piano
* 1997-1999 - "Century Quartet (various recordings totaling ~18 hours long)" - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, sampler, mandolin, trombone, percussion, co-engineer
* 1998 - "The Lane 29 Orchestra (self-titled LP)" - composer
* 2000 - "Assumed Name (self-titled LP)" - everything
* 2000 - "Jason Kocol: From That One Country (LP)" - everything
* 2001 - "qoqol (self-titled LP)" - everything
* 2002 - "Jason Kocol: Actual Sighs (LP)" - everything
* 2002 - "Kocolcainut (Cococainut and Jason Kocol split CD)" - everything on Kocol material, vocals and co-arrangement on joint Cococainut/Kocol track
* 2002 - "Puny Humans: No One Will Ever Understand Our Genious (LP)" - guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals, accordion, synthesizer, kazoo, virtual glockenspiel, whistle
* 2003 - "The Unicorn Stickers (self-titled demo)" - synthesizer, vocals, co-engineer
* 2004 - "Madera Road (self-titled LP)" - guitar, vocals, mandolin, electric piano
* 2004 - "The John Francis: Voyage of the Daring Cornelius (LP)" - bandoneon, piano
* 2005 - "Impaled: Death After Life (LP)" - guitar, vocals, bandoneon
* 2006 - "Ghoul: Splatterthrash (LP)" - co-engineer
* 2007 - "Impaled: The Last Gasp (LP)" - guitar, vocals, bandoneon, trombone, co-engineer

Filmography

* 2000 - "Ballbreaker (short, silent)" - composer
* 2001 - "The Runaway (short, silent; dir. Brandon Thomas)" - composer
* 2002 - "Words From the Bible (short; dir. Christopher Bruce)" - composer
* 2003 - "The Crowd (short, animation, unfinished)" - composer

Videography

* 2002 - "Things Go Wrong (short)" - co-director, co-editor, composer
* 2005 - "Impaled: Preservation of Death (music video)" - actor, editor